Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would permanently suspend accounts that violate its policies.
Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would permanently suspend accounts that violate its policies while tweeting about QAnon, a fringe group that claims “deep state” traitors are plotting against President Donald Trump.
Twitter, which announced the change on its Twitter Safety page, said it would not serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in trends and recommendations, and would prevent group-related URLs from being shared on the platform. .
The suspension, which will be rolled out this week, is expected to impact around 150,000 accounts worldwide, Twitter said. He said more than 7,000 accounts have been deleted in recent weeks for breaking company rules against spam, platform manipulation and evasion of bans.
Suspensions will be applied to accounts “engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or attempting to evade a previous suspension – which we have seen more often in recent weeks,” said Twitter.
In online conspiracies, the term “deep state” is used to refer to a combination of elites from the fields of intelligence, politics, business and entertainment, with QAnon’s theories claiming that the “deep state” is in. secret war with Trump.
QAnon also claimed that members of the Democratic Party were behind international criminal networks. The group’s content has spread widely across mainstream social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. Earlier this year, Facebook deleted a US network of fake QAnon-linked accounts.
Last year, the FBI issued a warning regarding “domestic extremists based on conspiracy theory” and identified QAnon as a potential domestic extremist threat.
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